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Video Launched Commemorating Robert F. Kennedy's Famous GDP Speech
March 18, 2008
The Glaser Progress Foundation launches video commemorating Kennedy's March 18, 1968 speech in which he issued the startling challenge that our most basic measure of the economy - the Gross National Product - fails to count the true experience of America.

Senate Hearing To Examine Inadequacies of GDP
March 5, 2008
Forty years after Senator Robert F. Kennedy famously challenged the Gross Domestic Product as a measure of our nation's progress and well-being, Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) will take up the issue at a hearing Wednesday, March 12, 2008 before the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce, Trade and Tourism.



 
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